μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif
Scholars’ trail — 2references

The index’s own references — the collections where scholars sighted this story-shape, tradition by tradition. Titles on our shelf are live links; the rest is the frontier, not yet shelved.

  • LithuanianBalys Index No. 1525M*
  • FlemishMeyer FFC XXXVII No. 1528*.
Within the index

Filed under Victim enticed into voluntary captivity or helplessness.

Filed beside it
Deception into entering bagDeception into allowing oneself to be fetteredDeception into entering box (or prison)Deception into allowing oneself to be hanged. ("Show me how!") Executioner must show the hero how to use the gallows. The hero hangs the executionerDeception into bottle (vessel). Insects (or a spirit) having escaped from a bottle are told that they cannot return. They accept the challenge and go back into the bottleCock persuaded to crow with closed eyes. SeizedGiant tricked into becoming mouse. Cat eats him upDupe lured away from protection of friends: capturedDupe persuaded to ride on trickster's back: captured. (Cf. J651.1.)Foxes crawl into whale's house and are killed
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